Clothing-cabinet.



PATENTED JULY-9, 1907.

JT.BATTS. CLOTHING CABINET.

APPLIUATION FILED JUNE 25, 1906.

WI TNESS E8 PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN THOMAS BATTS, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

CLOTHING-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1907."

Application filed June 25, 1906. Serial No- 323,288.

To all whom it may concem:

Be itknown that I, JOHN THOMAS Bn'r'rs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothing- Gabinets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in clothing cabinets and more particularly-to cabinets adapted to contain articles of clothing, such as coats and the like; and its object is to provide movable supports within the same whereby the contents may be successively brought to convenient position for inspection or removal, and to provide the device with various new and useful features hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a device embodying my invention with portions broken away to show the construction; and, Fig. 2 a vertical section of the same.

Like numbers refer to like parts in both of the figures.

1 represents any suitable frame for the cabinet; 2 curtains for closing the same, which curtains may be displaced by doors, if preferred; 3 represents sprocket chains at the respective sides of the cabinet, said chains being continuous or endless and having vertical portions spaced apart in parallel planes and each chain extending over four sprocket wheels 4, two of the same being near the top oi the cabinet and two others near the lower part of the same, the lower wheels being a suliicient distance lroln the bottom of the cabinet to permit thcclothing and supports to pass beneath the wheels without touching the floor and the upper wheels being close to the top of the cabinet. To simultaneously move these chains, two opposite lower sprocket wheels are connected by a shaft 6 and to permit the a clothing to pass to the respective'sides of the cabinet as the chains move, the upper wheels are journaled on short studs 5. To suspend the clothing. from these chains, pendulum hangers 14 are pivoted to the chains at their upper ends and opposite each other in'pairs. Each pair at their lower ends support a horizontal bar 15 upon which bar the clothing is movably suspended by means of hangers 16 provided with hooks 17 having grooved rolls 18 engaging and traversing the bars 15.

The hangers normally extend vertically downward from their pivotal connections with the chains, and at a convenient position on one or both sides of the cabinet (one side only being shown). Inclined slides extend downward and outward from the chains to near the from. oi the cabinet, which slides are spaced apart suliicient to permit the rods and hangers 14 to pass thorehetwcrni and on the respective hangers and near the ends of the rods are outwzn'dly projecting lugs 20,

which engage the slides 19 and carry the rods and lower .ends of the hangers outward as they descend, thus bringing the garments supported thereon partially out of the case and in convenient position for inspection or removal. As the rods pass the lower end of these slides 19 the lugs engage reverse slides 19 extending from the lower ends of the slides 19 downward and inward toward the chains and thus permit the rods to gradually move inward as they descend and prevent any sudden swinging inward of the same. These slides 19 terminate a sufficient distance from the chains to permit the lugs 20 to pass their lower ends on the up ward movement of the same, and when the lugs engage the under side of the upper ends of the slides 19 the chains will readily yield laterally and let the lugs pass the upper ends of said slides so that only the descending garments are carried outward by the slides 19. To move these chains and the articles supported thereby, the shaft 6 is providednear one end with a bevel gear 7 engaged by a beveled pinion 8 mounted on a shaft 9 extending horizontally outside the case and provided with a crank, 10 to manually rotate the shaft and pinion. To prevent the chains from moving when unequally loaded at each side of the cabinet, I provide a longitudinally movable bolt 11 adapted to enter the links of the chains and hold thesame, said bolt being moved into engagement with the chain by a spring 14 and manually retracted by a knob 12 on its outer end.

By means of the described construction, a large quantity of goods can be conveniently disposed on a very small floor space, the cabinet being unlimited in its vertical dimensions except by the distance from the floor to the ceiling of the store in which it may be placed, and each series oi garments mounted on the respective rods can be successively brought into convenient po sition for removal or replacement as occasion may require. p

, What I claim is: 1. In a clothing cabinet, vertically and horizontally movable horizontal rods to support the garments, means for supporting and vertically moving the rods, lugs connected to the rods, and inclined ways engaged by the lugs to move the rods horizontally. v

2. In a clothing cabinet, vertically movable pendulum supports arranged in pairs and pivoted at their upper ends, means ior vertically moving said supports, rods atinclled to the lower ends of the rcspectlve pairs of sup,- ports, outwardly projecting lugs on the supports and inclined wnys epg'ug'od by the lugs.

3. In a clothing oulilnct, endless chains vertically arranged nnd spin-ml mini-t, sprocket wheels supporting said chums, moons l'orsimultaneously rotating said wheels, pendulum supports pivoted to said chains at intervals and nrrnng'cd in pull-s, rods niluchcd to the lower ends of the respective pairs oi supports, nlcmls for holding and releasing l'llO chains; ways (Mending downward and outward from the chains. and lugs near the respective ends of the rods (engaging and traversing the ways.

4. In a clothing cabinet, :1 misc, vertically and horizom tally movable rods in the case, means for supporting and the rods; and. outwardly and inwardly inc1lned ways en-' wirei-ticallyinovihg the"rods, lugs connected ,to the-ends of gaged and cmversedhy the lugsr v tically a'nd'spa'eed 'ap rt,"means for slniultaneouslymovlug -and -holdlng'- sai,d' chains, pendulum hangers pivoted to saldfclialns at their upper ends'and arranged in 0pposing palrsfrods supponted-hy said hangers, waysextending from the 'cha lnsdownward end outw'ax d to near" 5. m iclo thlng cabinet, endless chains extending yer -1'neans for moving andholdlng the chains. pendulum hang- I ers in opposlng pairs and pivotally attached to the chains rods supported by the respective pairs of hangers, lugs on the hangers neer the respective ends of the. rods, 'outwal-dly and downwardly incllned ways, arranged withthelr 'upper'ends close to the chains, and oppos'ltelyin cllned ways extending from the lower ends of theflrst namedways tonear the "chains, and spaced apart therefrom at their lower ends.

In ,testimony whereof I afi'lx. lny signature'in presence of two witnesses. v

' JOHN THOMAS BAT'JJS. Witnesses v Y PALMER A. Jones,

' GEORGIANA CHACE. 

